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9/11Rituals and Passages: 75 Years of The American Passion Play
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- Publication date
- 1998
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- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International
- Topics
- Passion Play
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- opensource
- Language
- English
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- 87.4M
Since time immemorial, humans have demonstrated devotion to their God or gods through many mediums: prayer, art, architecture, music, and through the written word. Even greater than the desire to honor the holy world is the desire to establish communication and achieve spiritual transformation. This is often accomplished through ritual. Performing ritual comes from the need to express what is felt. What greater honor for the faithful than to teach sacred stories by living them through performance?
This booklet was developed in conjunction with the exhibit Rituals and Passages: 75 Years of the American Passion Play, on display at the McLean County Historical Society from April 21, 1998 to May 8, 1999. The year 1998 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary, making it the longest continuously running passion play in the United States, and a Bloomington original.
